Category: Announcements

Earlier today Adobe announced that appFigures will soon be providing app store data to Adobe Analytics. That’s huge news for us and the timing couldn’t be any better, as next week we’ll be turning six!

We work hard to make app store analytics accessible, so when Adobe reached out to us a few months ago we were very excited to extend the data we’re already providing beyond the walls of appFigures. We know that the more data you have the better decisions you can make, and that’s the key to success.

We like working with Adobe for many reasons, but one that is very important to us is their approach to handling sensitive data, which is very similar to ours – your private data is yours, not ours. That’s why we don’t sell or share it with anyone.

Adobe’s Analytics Dashboards provides a variety of marketing metrics, and coming soon, those metrics will include a variety of app store metrics, including: detailed app downloads and revenue, hourly ranks, and app ratings. The integration, which we’re working to release later in April, will be available as a free add-on to all enterprise and publisher accounts.

We’re planning to start testing the integration later this month. If you’re using Adobe Analytics and would like to help with testing please get in touch.

Over the past few years there have been quite a few changes here at appFigures. We’ve added support for new stores and ad networks. We’ve expanded our app store data offerings. We’ve seen folks create apps in our ecosystem, both publicly and privately. With all these changes, API v1.1 was getting a little dusty, so a new version of the API was in order.

Today we’re happy to officially announce API v2.

API v2 adds access to public data and supercharges reviews, featured, and ranks. New, unified, product_ids let you ask for sales and public data by the same id easily. Along the way we’ve fixed quite a few bugs, added some features and cleaned up some representations that were clunky. Overall, it will make using the API even better than it was before.

Here’s a quick overview of the new features. You can check out the documentation for a full list of changes.

New routes

API v2 brings with it a few new routes to enable access to datasets that were only available on the site until now. The new routes include: /ratings, /featured, and /ranks/snapshot. You can probably tell what datasets they represent by their name.

New app reviews engine

We’ve been working really hard on a very powerful engine for app reviews. You’ve probably seen some of the announcements. API v2 takes full advantage of this new engine and exposes a brand new /reviews route written from the ground up to support searching, filtering, sorting, and translating reviews with ease.

OAuth for 3rd party access

Basic Auth is great when you need to use the API for yourself and don’t need the overhand of a security provider. It isn’t that great however for 3rd party integrations because it means your private credentials will be exposed to that 3rd party.

New in API v2 is OAuth support, which is required for 3rd party access, making your username and password invisible to to everyone without limiting access.

Public Data API

Until today the API only enabled access to apps you own, forcing you to visit the site to get ranks, reviews, and other information about apps you don’t. API v2 removes that limitation with a new add-on so you can get public data for any app you wish. Check out the Public Data Access page for more details.

Much more

We’ve taken the time to make small improvements across the entire API such as: improved date management, more options to pivot on, and access to all ad networks. Check out the complete list of changes, or dive right into the documentation.

We’re never really “done” with a report or feature, but are always working hard to make them even better. For the last few months we’ve been doing just that for the new Reviews report, and here are the most recent updates:

We’re now importing reviews for iBooks

By popular demand, we’re now showing reviews for iBooks in the new report. iBook reviews get all the new features that up until now were only available to apps. Enjoy!

Scanning for new reviews more often

To be able to add all the new features to reviews we had to switch away from real-time scans to scanning for new reviews in the background. Initially we started with a scan every few days but have been scaling that and are now scanning for new reviews multiple times per day so your reviews should always be up to date.

Keyword and author search is faster

We’ve been making infrastructure improvements so searches are now even snappier than before.

Improved integration with email reports

Email reports are now getting fed the most recent reports so you can stay up to date. Reviews can be translated to the language of your choice as well.

Come kick off the holiday season with us this Friday, at our monthly drinkup. This time we’re starting a little earlier, so whether you’re coming straight from work to cap off the week, or stopping by to start off your night, we’ll be there at 5:30!

A while back we introduced the ITC status page which shows current and historic release times for daily reports from iTunes Connect. It’s proven to be quite popular among everyone who relies on iTunes Connect, so today we’re rolling out the same report for Google Play.

If you’re ever unsure why the latest Google Play data isn’t showing up in your account this is a good first place to check.

Apple has recently added two new data sets to iTunes Connect, monthly and yearly. As you may have already noticed, we’ve added support for both new datasets so now we have support for the daily, weekly, monthly, yearly, and financial datasets across all sales reports.

Monthly reports are available for the last 12 months and all yearly reports are available from the beginning of time (2008).

You can easily switch to the new reports by selecting monthly or yearly from the report set menu at the top of your sales reports.

A note on financial reports: Up until this update the Monthly/Financial report set contained financial reports for iOS and Mac apps. Since the financial reports don’t align with monthly reports we’ve separated the combo dataset into two sets: monthly and Financial.

Over the last few weeks some members have been experiencing connectivity issues with Google Play. The issue, which affected less than 10% of accounts, forced members to reset the password of their Google account after syncing because Google saw our sync as a suspicious login.

No one really knows how Google decides which login attempt is suspicious or not which made resolving this a bit wee difficult. After several code changes, a new sync server, and ultimately direct help from Google though we’re happy to say that this issue has finally stopped.

If you had to re-link or re-verify your account over the last month or so we are sorry! Although this was somewhat outside of our control we feel it is our responsibility to provide smooth and issue-free syncing so we really appreciate the patience you’ve shown while we were working to resolve this.

Ariel and the appFigures Team

P.S. – We don’t believe you should have to pay for service we did not provide and so we will be crediting affected accounts within the next few days.

We’ve heard from a number of our members in the last hour or so, informing us that Apple has replaced their data for February 13, 2013 because the originally published daily report may have been incomplete.

In order to ensure your reports are as accurate as possible we recommend replacing the report for 2/13. We’re automatically replacing reports in the background right now for all members who have auto-import enabled. If you don’t have auto-import on in your account, you should manually replace the report by following the steps below: